The Booksellers Association demands that Benmoussa ban the sale of school books in private schools during the next academic year

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The Moroccan Booksellers asked the Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports, Chakib Benmoussa, to urgently intervene to organize the sale of school books during the next school year.

In this context, the Moroccan Booksellers Association wrote to the Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports, Chakib Benmoussa, to intervene and prevent some private institutions from selling educational curricula within the institutions.

The association stressed, in a statement issued following an emergency meeting held to discuss developments in the school book and prepare for the upcoming school year, the need to monitor the publication of school regulations for private schools, so that the school year process proceeds in a transparent and smooth manner, noting the importance of determining the titles of science books, according to each district for the preparatory and secondary levels in public education.

In a related context, the Moroccan Booksellers Association stressed the importance of the intervention of directors of public educational institutions in their turn to prevent mothers’ and fathers’ associations from selling school registration supplies.

In addition, the association called on local authorities to intervene to prevent the random sale of school supplies by sidewalk vendors and unlicensed shops.

This comes at a time when the chaos witnessed in the process of selling school books and registration supplies raises great controversy at the beginning of each school year, in light of the absence of interventions that organize this process and ensure that it proceeds in good conditions.